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Fereydoun Ave (b. 1945, Tehran) is an Iranian art collector, curator, painter, and sculptor.

In 1945, he was born into a family that followed the Zoroastrian religion. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in England. Later on, he obtained a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University and pursued further studies at the New York University Film School.

He began his career in theater and had a hand in creating the poster, stage, costume, and lighting designs for plays at the City Theater of Tehran from its inception in 1972. In addition, he was in charge of Zand Gallery in Tehran and Hayden-Zand Gallery in Washington State, USA.

Some of Av's most notable works are housed in prestigious museums all around the world, including the British Museum, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Centre Pompidou in Paris.